![]() ![]() His stories are often thought experiments that explore ideas perched at the confluence of scientific disciplines that, at first blush, may seem unrelated: behavioral science and software engineering linguistics and physics dendrochronology and cosmology. It would just take him another decade or so to get there.Ĭhiang is the author of 14 short stories and two novellas that together have won 27 major writing prizes. But Feynman’s passage on the Principle of Least Action did spark the idea for “Story of Your Life,” the short story that would make him the internationally renowned writer he is today. By then, the bookish teenager had already been submitting stories to magazines. It’s not quite right to say the book launched Chiang’s celebrated science fiction writing career. Clarke to read, just for tickles, The Feynman Lectures on Physics. As an intellectually restless high school student in the 1980s, Ted Chiang took a break from the science fiction giants Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. ![]()
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